Pink Opens Up About How ‘Several Miscarriages’ Changed Her Relationship With Her Body

Over the years Pink has been quite transparent about her journey to motherhood, and in a new interview with USA Today, she opens up about having had a miscarriage at 17 years old.

The pop star first acknowledged this experience in her new song "Happy" (from the recently released album Hurts 2B Human). "Since I was 17, I've always hated my body, and it feels like my body's hated me," she sings at the top of the track. Those lyrics, it turns out, partially derive from her miscarriage.

"The reason I said [that] is because I've always had this very tomboy, very strong gymnast body, but actually at 17 I had a miscarriage," Pink tells USA Today. "And I was going to have that child. But when that happens to a woman or a young girl, you feel like your body hates you and like your body is broken, and it's not doing what it's supposed to do."

Pink says she's had "several miscarriages" since: "I think it's important to talk about what you're ashamed of, who you really are and the painful [expletive]. I've always written that way."

And she talks in interviews that way. Just last week Pink revealed to Ellen DeGeneres she isn't posting pictures of her children to social media anymore because of incessant mommy-shaming. The catalyst for this move was a round of negative comments she received for a photo of her son not wearing a diaper. (She eventually deleted the pic and replaced it with a message to trolls: "I’m turning off my comments and shaking my head at the state of social media and keyboard warriors," she wrote. "There is something seriously wrong with a lot of you out there.")

"I'm not posting pictures of them anymore," Pink told DeGeneres. "And I understand people saying, 'You should have been more careful because you're in the public eye,' and they're right—but there's a nice way to say that. There's a kind way to be online. And I'm open to kindness."